AMERICA'S FIRST COMMUNISTS WERE THE PILGRIMS

In 1620 one hundred pilgrims from England arrived on the shores of Cape Cod. Within six months half of the pilgrims had died from starvation. The leaders of the expedition had been in charge of providing food for everyone and had not figured their needs correctly. By spring there were only fifty pilgrims left alive, some of them women and children, all of them suffering from malnutrition.

Some of the men busied themselves with sowing the fields with corn and peas and beans. Others of the men claimed to be too sick and weak to work. The leaders said it was important they go exploring the woods of the New World. And one man simply refused to work, knowing he could steal all he wanted from the storehouse.

Later in the summer the women and children were ordered to help in the field, carrying water for the crops and hoeing the hardened earth.

The men and women and even the older children who toiled in the sun understood their survival depended on a good crop to see them through the winter. Those who did not work depended on the others to provide for them. They knew the crops would be divided equally to each person, regardless of who worked and who didn't. The leaders of the pilgrims had decided their new town would be governed on the ideal of equality.

That first crop proved inadequate and the pilgrims had another hungry winter. And the second spring found the same circumstances as the first, with some of the men unwilling to toil in the dirt. The same men trudged to the field every day, while others made excuses of illness or needing to explore or saying they would go hunting.

The second crop also fell short of the needs of the pilgrims. And the men who had worked all summer in the field declared they were tired of doing all of the work and seeing everyone share equally in the harvest. They demanded the field be divided into sections for each family and that each family must take responsibility for growing their own crops.

So ended the first American experiment in equal distribution of goods, communism, and began the capitalist system which was to endure.

Three hundred years later Stalin instituted the Marxist philosophy of equality and set Russia on the path to communism. Having been a Marxist revolutionary against the rule of the Czar, Stalin had been a bank robber and kidnapper, a murderer and a blackmailer. He had also organized Muslim and Arab minorities to help him in these crimes, cloaking their crimes in the claim that they were necessary in order to free the people from the rule of the Czar.

Once he had fought his way up to rule in Russia, Stalin created a secret police force to terrorize the people into silence. He also encouraged a cult of personality to form about himself, for the people to believe he was their savior.

Stalin purged the country of whomever he felt were a threat to him. Some were killed, others sent to Siberia. Millions and millions suffered and died, including military personnel and their families, ethnic minorities, and everyone suspected of criticizing him, including teachers. It is estimated at least ten million died.

Stalin created collective farms and farmers were not allowed to farm for themselves. The result was famine. The people suffered year after year from lack of food, some years worse than others. Nearly everyone was malnourished, many died. The numbers are not known because Stalin kept them a secret. But it was more millions.

While Stalin was ruling Russia with his iron fist and his people were suffering for it, the U.S. was thriving and growing in prosperity. Why, then, did Mao decide to subject the Chinese to communism? Yet he did.

Mao ordered the murders of his nation's intellectuals, landlords, businessmen he considered capitalists, many minorities, and anyone he felt opposed him. He encouraged a cult of personality about himself, savior of his people.

He took many peasants out of the fields to work in the new factories. Years of famine resulted. It is believed 30 million people died of starvation between 1958 to 1961.

Mao is known to have been paranoid, and it has been reported he had an aversion to bathing. That's interesting.

Mao also enforced the rule of only one child per family. Anyone could have forseen the result. Today China is filled with young men who can't find wives because parents chose to keep their male children. The girls were aborted or killed at birth.

North Korea and Cuba can be added to the list of communist countries where the people suffer under communist rule. Their rulers also have created a cult of personality. It can only be concluded, then, that communism is a repressive philosophy for self-serving dictators.